For me, my favorite Paul vocal period and when I feel he was at his peak was the period between London Towne and Back To The Egg. I liked the roughness of his voice such as on Old Siam Sir and the smoothness on Baby's Request. I also liked for lack of a better word, the "confidence" with which he sang. Let me ask this question to everyone. How much studio "trickery" do you think Paul uses these days for his voice on his albums so that he doesn't sound warbly. Do you think if he "tried" a little harder to not sound as warbly in concert he could do it? I mean, I've listened to old John songs from 70's concerts and he's sounded a little warbly too so I'm wondering how much of it is just because that's how he sings now live. If you listen to an Eagles live CD, i.e, Hotel California, you see that it sounds a lot like the original, even now.

Slightly controversial but his voice was particularly epic for run devil run. Probably due to the touring break. It's true, the tripping the live fantastic voice was becoming really strained but it recovered eventually.

i'm gonna guess (mostly because it is what i firmly wish to believe), joe-fig, that the only 'studio trickery' he uses would be a very standard multiple takes/multiple edits one..

and since they obviously (see all the liner notes from all the anthology sets) used that sort of editing process even back in the beatle days...and just about everybody has always done it...it is not, in my book, cheating at all

In fairness his live performances couldn't be more live (as his very rare mistakes show) so I somehow trust him trickery-wise - I'm sure there's some, but a lot less than anyone else out there! (I'm discounting Good Evening New York City, which very obviously was autotuned - but hey, it was one (or two?) concerts, you can't expect 100 % for 40 songs. Rockshow was completely redubbed - but I think people were less critical about such things at the time!)

the rumor i'd heard (way back-in-the-day & popping up at times through the years) was that either part or all of the vocals off WOA album (and, thusly/probably, the rockshow movie) were redubbed AT THAT TIME...i never read/heard/saw anything to either confirm or deny it...

of course...i've heard that very same idea about just about every live album...ever...so who knows: it can't be true for nearly all of them, can it ?

either way, i would suspect that is the rumor to which has been alluded to by friend JQ

...course...i'm not totally sold on the supposed autotuning on NYC...after all, why ???

he has so many specious and faltering vocals out there, including a few off recent studio albums...why do it ?